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Is this crabgrass?

julian_oczkowskiV4b_QQzSjulian_oczkowskiV4b_QQzS Posts: 8
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Hi all so few weeks back I have put new seed in.
Did all the good stuff, sacrificed, aerate, put some turf on top of the seeds.

What am seeing poping up now after few weeks is some of the new grass but also a lot of these (photo). Is this crabgrass? If it is would you do anything about it now?
The seed I used is a seed mixture of 43% Dwarf Amenity Ryegrass, 40% Creeping Red Fescue, 12% Chewings Fescue and 5% Brown Top Bent. Could this be one of them?

Thank you.




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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I wouldn't have thought grass from seed would be making seed heads in a few weeks, so possibly there were some roots left in the soil that escaped the clearing process before you sowed the seed. I don't know crabgrass but I'm fairly sure the grass in your picture isn't any of the species in your seed mix.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    I have no idea what crab grass is either, it seems to be a generalised term for an entire set of different grasses. That grass you have pictures of is most certainly not anything you sowed this year, you do mention turf as well though, so it could be from that?
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